Hello Jeff, Am 08:21 2003-06-20 -0700 hat Jeff Newmiller geschrieben: > >On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Michelle Konzack wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I was vor some years on the original LRP-Mailinglists and >> now I have joined the leaf-project... >> >> First I have a problem, because most of older 486 does not >> support othe FD formats as 1440 kBytes... > >I dispute your claim of "most"... Windows95 was originally distributed by >Microsoft on 1680k floppies. Do you really think they would have done
;-)) >that if any significant number of computers they were targeting (486 was >most common then) would not be able to read them? I use LRP/DOF in the east or turkia, iran and syria ;-)) The computers are older then Win95 ;-)) I run for example a VLB-Mainboard with a Cyrix Cx486dx40 and four 4 MB SIM Modules... The Bios and the Floppy drives can not handel more then 1.44 MBytes. (must use LRP 2.9.4 or DOF 2.1) >> Question: Which Version of FD-Router must/can I use ? > >I recommend trying a couple. You will need to read the documenation for >whichever ones you use, because there are significant differences from LRP >in all of them. Bering, Dachstein and Oxygen are all still somewhat >floppy-oriented, with Bering having most activity here recently. I have seen the ftp site and they are Dino-Files from Jurasic Parc ;-)) Curently I have no Internet at home... only in an Internet-Cafe, so downloading is not possibel for me... >> P.S.: I am hacking on my 2.4.19 Router image... >> And running into trouble because ulibc does not support >> somthing I need and libc6 is tooooooooooooooooooo big ! > >Yes, constraining yourself to one and only one 1440k floppy is bound to be >challenging. As for "libc6", that covers at least glibc2.0, glibc2.1, and >glibc2.2, in order of increasing capability and size. Bering and I use 2.2.5 >Dachstein use glibc2.0, same as LRP. I haven't seen much activity on Oh yes, I use the 2.0 on DOF 2.1 without any changes... >> My kernel has curently 474 kBytes and I call my distri >> 'Debian On Floppy v3.0' (but v2.1 and v2.2 exist too) >> >> Sorry, curently I am very Off-Line and I have no wesite. > >Welcome back. I think there are many advantages to using a LEAF distro, >but I also feel I should point out that you may be closer to your goal >using your own distro than you think... once you recognize that one 1440 Hmmm, I have seen, leaf continue to use the *.lrp ;-)) I was switching to *.dof because of "Debian On Floppy" Oh yes, my root.dof is around 1200 kBytes :-( (the Tyranosaurus Rex) >floppy is just too small. Larger formats, flash disks, and even old hard I love my CF-Cards... using an IDE CF-Controller which is connected tirectly to the IDE-Cable and has 16 MBytes... works like the heaven... Around 22 Euro for the CF-Adapter and 8 Euro for the 16 MB CF-Card. (17 Euro for 64 MByte) >disks can all be used to reach your goals, and if you scrounge some newer >computers, CD-R has been used a lot, and even USB flash disks. This is no solution for me, because the old Computers I MUST USE !!! have a nice Day Michelle ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
